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Imawinner4ever
in Stockton, California

42 months ago

Macy's is very Deceptive in the way they conduct business. You apply for a job or jobs, you get an interview, and then your told that those positions are not available. Only retail positions are available, and it's a group interview at that. Everyone will make the same pay 8.50 an hour. Their main objective is for you to push their REWARDS CARDS, they don't care about customer service! On top of that they tell you what a fun place Macy's is to work! I personally don't see a business that conducts themselves in this manner lasting, but the way things are in this world they may do just great. Remember, you read it right here, apply at your own risk.

U totally agree with you, as I was called in for an interview, and told an opening was available in the Beauty Dept. and I would need to speak with the Cosmetics Manager. The next day I got an email that there were no job openings. I called Huamn Resources in Taunton, MA and expressed my disappointment as she stated there were no jobs, yet now there is a listing for the Beauty Advisor job I wanted. Totally unprofessional and mean to do to a person who would really love to work for their company.

Imawinner4ever in Stockton, California said: Macy's is very Deceptive in the way they conduct business . You apply for a job or jobs, you get an interview, and then your told that those positions are not available. Only retail positions are available, and it's a group interview at that. Everyone will make the same pay 8.50 an hour. Their main objective is for you to push their REWARDS CARDS, they don't care about customer service ! On top of that they tell you what a fun place Macy's is to work! I personally don't see a business that conducts themselves in this manner lasting, but the way things are in this world they may do just great. Remember, you read it right here, apply at your own risk.

Everything you said is so true, I worked there for two years. When I was hired I was told that I was next to be hired as a PT employee, two years later still an on-call employee that hardly works. Macy's basically hires seasonal employees each year and gets rid of their older on-call employees, it's a cycle. That way no need to give out benefits. MACY'S SUCK!, don't wantbto work there anymore. I'm looking for a new job but I think Macy's is saying bad things about me because no one will hire me. I busted my behind for them so they could do this to me, Thank so much Macy's.

Biggest interview scam I ever went through. Applied online- got a rejection letter almost 24 later. The day after they called me to see if I wanted to interview. At the time I was unemployed so I said yes. Went in only to hear that she had given the position to someone days before. When she asked me how much I wanted to make, she said no negotiations. Everyone makes the same amount whether you are a HS drop out or like me (went in with a degree in the field and 5+ years in the same field I was applying for). The they said staff can't work for more than 4 hours per day! Wouldn't even be worth driving there if accepted. . . oh yeah, my father managed a different dept too and still rejected. Not only will I never apply there, I have not shopped there since.

I worked years ago for this company, I was never hired as a PTor FT employee after they promised me, I worked there 2 years as an on-call and they just kept hiring new people,giving us little hours, so of course no benefits ever. I already had retail experience and a degree so they were taking advantage of me because they offered me minimum wage. Found another job, their competitors and was offered a part-time, a year later I was working full-time with more pay. Macy's takes advantage of it's people, they yell at you to sell, sell, sell, and credit cards are a must. I hated being a fake salesperson.

I absolutely hate working here. First they hire u 'option 5' which means they only assign u 4-8 hours a week. Finding hours is terrible, there are never any available! And the pay is horrible 7.40 but I'm supposed to be this amazing sales person. And they're always hiring, why there are no hours for people who already work here! Then credits, that's all I ever here from my manager credit credit credit! 99% of people who come to my department already have a Macy's card so how am I supposed to get 2 a week. Working twice a week on non sale days. On top of that u have big goals and now that they've changed to score cards it's even worse for the people with little to no hours. I wouldn't recommend working here at all, looking for a new job now.

If you think the Macy's DC or Fulfillment Center is different your wrong.
First off you go into an interview thinking that you've just applied for a full time job as listed on there website
second you get there and you are interviewed by one in a series of managers.
third your told that the full time and part time positions are filled and all they have is oncall your choice of taking it or not taking it.

Benefits is only an associate discount and a 401k after a year if you worked over 1000 hours.
Another benefit is unlike the store you do get a lot more hours however they will try there best to block you from part time and even harder from full time.

You will get alot of miscommunication.
Little knowledge I have about warehouse work DC/FC
not too sure about stores
Don't listen to what HR tells you take it with a grain of salt
ask workers and some supervisors.

I can tell you without a doubt if you average part time hours for a year 1000 they have to bump you up to part time. Infact if you average over 625 hours you've crossed the threshold at least that was last year

Do not let management and HR get to you. They will do everything in there power to not make you part time or full time.

And if you do let them get to you you do have a bad day and you do get disciplined for it (this is to everyone in macys whose oncall). Don't be afraid to call instore solutions. At that point you have nothing to lose and you cost your unit (company) money.
Remember whatever punishment you get as an on-call is more severe than that of a permanent employee.

I came in, had a GREAT interview with the recruiter. We bonded. He said he put in a good word for me with the jewelry head. I was there for a fine jewelry job. I met the dept head. He was a total rat. After wasting my time for about 15 minutes, he tells me to wait for a few minutes. All along the line the people knew I had a parking meter running out of time. They were good about it except the jewelry creep who took his time. He finally comes back with some woman from Kids/Young Men's Dept. Rat tells me he has NO OPENINGS, but meet this woman. WHAT A LIE!!! Why did he interview me then and ask me every quesgtion in their arsenal? Liar! The woman speeds the interview along cause she knows I have to get to my meter. Finally, she says do I have time to do the paperwork and schedule my first day. Huh? Am I hired? I say anytime is fine. She says I can do the paperwork on my first day. I run to my car which is many blocks away (downtown Chicago) dying from a near-asthma attack. This was a week ago. Never heard from the woman or anyone else. I called HR and she said through them that she was busy and would call me. Never did. What the hell is with this place. I made it five minutes late to my car and beat the cops to a ticket. At least I didn't have that happen on top of all this crap.

I've had a very similar experience with Macy's Orland Park. I interviewed and the woman said she loved me and had two potential positions available. About a week later after hearing nothing I got a call saying they'd filled the position I interviewed for but she was forwarding me to another dept with an opening. Of course, I heard nothing for two weeks,called again, left a message for a girl that picked up in HR. Heard nothing, called again, she mentioned getting my previous message. I finally got a call from the woman in the "other" dept saying they also had no openings.
I inquired about when holiday, temp staffing would start. They said they'd give me a call back. And...I've heard nothing.

The woman who told me to call back after the interviewer baled told me I would get another email to confirm. I never got the email. I received an email from the other macys store I applied for. I went to the interview. It went well. After evey answer she said "ok, perfect" She asked me what my top 3 departments that I would like to work in. I thought of the ones most appealing to me but said I would love to work anywhere in the store. She was kind of pushing jewelry and I said "absolutely"she told me she had a few more interviews and that I would hear back in a couple of days. She asked me if I had any questions for her. I told her that while I didn't have alot of experience in retail (under a year) would that make it more difficult. She laughed and said no, anyone can pick up how to do it quickly and experience in this didn't really matter. I received an email this time saying I didnt fit any of their needs and good luck with future endeavors. Does this mean that I should never apply there again? I would really like to work there again? I know that after my bad experiences with them so far, I shouldn't want to but I really love this store. If I could somehow get my foot in the door w/o all the drama w/management who couldn't give two ***** about me or my time. I think the employees (who were the only ones who were helpful with my dilemma) would be great people to work with.

ak165 in New York, New York said: how much do holidays temps get paid? I saw a listing that it pays $15/hour as a holiday temp at herald square?

I'm in a New York store but not the city. The training was minimum wage, $7.25 an hour in New York, and the pay once you're out on the floor is 50 cents higher, at $7.75. Pretty terrible. Maybe Herald Square (Manhattan) pays more, I don't know. I'm sure they probably don't.

Imawinner4ever in Stockton, California said: Macy's is very Deceptive in the way they conduct business . You apply for a job or jobs, you get an interview, and then your told that those positions are not available. Only retail positions are available, and it's a group interview at that. Everyone will make the same pay 8.50 an hour. Their main objective is for you to push their REWARDS CARDS, they don't care about customer service ! On top of that they tell you what a fun place Macy's is to work! I personally don't see a business that conducts themselves in this manner lasting, but the way things are in this world they may do just great. Remember, you read it right here, apply at your own risk.

Already did that (applied) I been trying to get work in
Macy's in my state (OR) and they don't even give me a chance each time that I applied they say that I don't qualify and that they will keep application on file for 30 days. the last time that I applied was one month ago and that was my last time.

I am also in strike; I will not buy anymore in that store ( the company is rich and I am not going to make it more rich) because I don't have the money to do it.

Macy's (which is really Federated, isn't it?) sounds like a scheethole to work. The thing about them only giving 4-8 hours and always hiring when they could give the hired more hours - that really gets my goat.

We work so physically hard and we don't get enough pay. It's sad. I know I am counted on to come to work every time I am scheduled. The minimum is so low but if our wage goes up so does everything else. It won't help us at all then.

I just had an interview yesterday. I was there 15 minutes early. But I waited about an HOUR for them to finally interview me. I went in and asked THREE times if there is going to be someone in there who is going to interview me. One lady had a mean blank face with no eye contact and said my interviewer would be out shortly. Then finally, I was called in. The interview felt like it went well. I smiled as much as felt right, and answered all the questions fluently. Then she said there were no jobs available but she would get back to me as soon as there were open positions. WHAT!? The next day, I got an E-mail saying I'M NOT QUALIFIED and there are NO JOBS FOR ME. Keep in mind the job I'm applying for takes no prior experience and they hire teenagers! I have a feeling they hire people heavily based on their looks. But who knows. It's a mystery to me!

I did an interview and in the interview he agreed that I had great qualifications (30 years retail experience) and I could not get him up from 8.50 to 9.00 hour. It looks like I am getting a full time job at another corporation as I am unemployed but I gotta tell you even being unemployed I was having doubts about taking the position at Macy's...temp....no benefits.....8.50 hour ??????? How would any employer expect the 8.50 an hour employees to give a darn about the job ???

I had really good luck with Hechts, just as it became Macy's, but then I noticed that as a floating employee I had to deal with a bunch of attitudes from other sales people, I met some really unfriendly characters. I declined to work with them. I gave my notice and quit, then moved to a new area of the state. I have applied to Macy's where some of my friends work and I can't get through their interview process, even though it was Hecht's that initially hired me! Oh, and I had been a prior Hecht's seasonal employee. I never had a problem with Hecht's, but Macys? Forget about it!

Is Hechts like a Macy's? I am a Macy's employee and work as a Merchandiser helper and if you don't kiss the leads behinds they will hate you. All the leads are basically American so if you are another race you are nothing there but a slave. HR needs to be selective with hiring different races as leads. I guess because I'm another race I will never be nothing but a slave here while the leads take their time bossing you around. I guess because the Merchandising Manager is American she selects White people as leads.

I applied for an adminassistant position at the Wanamaker building location several years ago. After filling out the online application I was notified via email that I selected for an interview. I scheduled my interview online then one or two days before my interview I received an email notifying me that the position was filled and my interview was cancelled. I can't help but wonder if they had someone lined up for that position all along....

Applied for on call position for Retail support at Herald Square and got the job. Completed training and the HR guy that was incharge of us that day told us to not pick shifts without your manager calling you. This was 3 months ago. I see why they told us not to call because they knew we would be waiting this long. I get that its on call but come on man, at least keep us updated on whats going on and not have us in the dark until a call arises.. Its ridiculous. They advertise how much they need helping hands and then never contact anybody. Its a bunch of bull and ridiculous. Don't apply here. You'll have a better outcome somewhere else.

I posted this in the other Macy's board on this site, but I was hired for a seasonal position over the phone by a Macy's call center rep and, from what I learned firsthand, there is NO communication between this call center and store HR. As a result I wound up being assigned to the wrong department and thus when I would show up for work to the department I was actually hired for, I was being deducted attendance points for being late and despite repeatedly hounding HR about it, was basically hand waved away and told it was taken care of (which it obviously wasn't).

I worked (first week being passed around randomly, the second week in the department I was actually hired for) the two weeks leading up to the start of the seasonal period and when I called in the next week (as I had no hours on my schedule) was told by my manager he had no hours for me for the next two weeks. I managed to pick up a couple of shifts online and was called the day of the first shift and told not to bother coming in. Went to log onto MSP and was no longer able to access it.

From what I figure, the store was sent way more people than they actually needed between who they hired and who was sent to them via phone interviews and people who get hired in store will be the ones they keep.

Imawinner4ever in Stockton, California said: Macy's is very Deceptive in the way they conduct business . You apply for a job or jobs, you get an interview, and then your told that those positions are not available. Only retail positions are available, and it's a group interview at that. Everyone will make the same pay 8.50 an hour. Their main objective is for you to push their REWARDS CARDS, they don't care about customer service ! On top of that they tell you what a fun place Macy's is to work! I personally don't see a business that conducts themselves in this manner lasting, but the way things are in this world they may do just great. Remember, you read it right here, apply at your own risk.

They pay you beans and want you to jump through rings of fire. I had an interview with them in the 8th of this month. These jerks had me waiting for 20 min, then my interviewer could barely speak English. How can I answer you if I don't know what the hell you're saying? Them guess what? They won't even contact you to tell you if you're hired or not. Well they can keep their crappy job. I start my new job tomorrow and it pays way more than they do at their minimum wage. They can keep that.

my 18 year old daughter just got hired as a Seasonal Employee. She applied online, was called a week later for an interview, actually she received an email, she was hired the same day, was in paid orientation for two days and has managed to get 10 to 20 hours a week. Not bad for someone with no prior experience. She loves it at $9.00/hour. I can't see someone with a household being able to do it, but for a young inexperienced teenager in college it's perfect.

I got an email to schedule an interview about 15 minutes ago. I logged in to schedule an interview not more than 10 minutes after receiving the email and the site says there's no appointments available?! What a bunch of horse sh*t!

After applying for Macy's job, I was finally able to schedule for an interview which I had to wait like two weeks. I was interviewed at Macy's for Seasonal Recovery Part Time job and was hired on the spot to work at Fine Jewelry, but they needed Background screen before I can start training. The HR girl told me to call her in next couple of days and I called her and she said she will call me back when Background screen comes back. I waited a week and called and only got a answering machine. I called back about 3 days later and left my name and phone number, but no call back. My background is clean. I check my e-mail everyday incase they contact via e-mail. As of today it's been 2 weeks, which is like a month. I am going to wait one more day and call back, and if I don't get any feed back. I am going to start applying for new job. Maybe their competitor. Macy's HR is so lame and unprofessional. I feel like I am left in a limbo with them. If they don' contact me back it's their loss of great potential employee and customer as well, because I will not ever shop there again, but I will shop at their competitor. I hope someone from Macy's Corporate is reading this and think about changing their hiring practice.

I applied and got a job at Macy's as a Seasonal associate, which I believed came with benefits. I was told that I did not get benefits because I owed HECHT's from 1998! I was denied my associate prepaid card. That bill was almost 16 years old. I decided not to work for them at the wages they offered. 7.85 per hour.